Some recommended reading on HIV

by Alanna Shaikh · 2009-02-13 09:01:00 UTC
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There's been a lot of interesting stuff published about HIV/AIDS lately. Here's a sampling of the major themes:

From Karen Grepin, we have the Impact of HIV/AIDS on human resources in Zambia. She's got links to studied that show that our fears are accurate; HIV funding can be bad for other kinds of health care.

That articles leads us, depressingly, to this piece on the GiveWell blog, which points out that some very well-respected exerts have doubts about the effectiveness of anti-retroviral therapy in low-resource environments. Since these drugs can actually make the situation worse, this is news that needs serious consideration.  Also, take a look at this depressing information about Nevirapine in infants

One way out of this conundrum would be an HIV vaccine, and there is new money going into the effort.  Recent research gives us some hope.

There is also some good news on the research front about preventing HIV infection.

The DfID blog has an interesting bit about HIV/AIDS and civil society in Mozambique.

They are having a forum on global HIV/AIDS at Georgetown University, with some big names. I can't go because I don't live in DC any more, but maybe you can.

And, lastly, if you pay people to get tested for HIV, they'll get tested. But knowing their statius doesn't seem to help with AIDs prevention.

Alanna Shaikh
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